WHAT: Press Conference featuring petitioners asking California Attorney General Dan Lungren to revoke Unocal's corporate charter. The petition outlines violations by Unocal of environmental, women's rights, and human rights laws over the past four decades. Following press conference petitioners will present the petition to the Attorney General or his representative. This 120 page scholarly petition was prepared by attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild.

Allegations against Unocal include environmental devastation, unethical and unfair treatment of workers, deception of shareholders, usurpation of political power, undermining of U.S. foreign policy, and complicity in human rights violations against women, gays, laborers, ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples by foreign governments with which it does business.

The New York Attorney General recently used a similar law to ask a court to revoke the charters of two tobacco industry "research" corporations. A judge in Alabama recently asked a court to revoke the charters of the tobacco companies themselves. The Petition opens a new legal strategy in an historic attempt by citizens groups to challenge corporate abuse.